UPDATED: Homicide suspects sought; two found beat to death in Lansingburgh home

MIKE McMAHON - mmcmahon@digitalfirstmedia.com, Woman family member gets a hug from a cororners employee. Troy Police investigate a double homicide of a couple at 709 1st Avenue Trailer in Lansingburgh, Wedesday August 20, 2014.

TROY >> City police are on the lookout for two suspects in a Lansingburgh double homicide where a man and woman were beaten to death.

Police were called to a home at 709 First Ave. at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday and found the victims, Michael Allen Lockrow, 51, and Marie Lockrow, 59, severely beaten. Officers are looking for two men who are reportedly driving the victims’ blue 2013 Ford Escape SUV.

Troy Police spokesman Capt. Daniel DeWolf said when responding to the call, police first believed the incident to be domestic, but upon arrival found no residents answering, and the front door of the trailer home kicked in and damaged.

The male victim was deceased when police arrived, and his wife was transported to the hospital, where she later died.

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“We talked to some family members and other people, and it appears as though the victim and the attackers probably knew each other,” said DeWolf. “It appears it was not just some random act. There’s definitely something there.”

Autopsies were scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. DeWolf said the cause of death appeared to be blunt force trauma, and the victims were beaten with an unknown object, possibly a baseball bat.

The killings, the latest in a series of violent incidents in Troy, including six homicides, happened hours before a planned rally Wednesday by citizens looking to help the city fight violence and crime.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service confirmed to The Record that armed escorts were accompanying mail carriers in Troy because of the violence.